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    The Antibody Reading Series

    Antibody: Starring Porochista Khakpour, Meredith Talusan, and Justin Taylor

    By The Virtual Book Channel  July 30, 2020
    The Hub

    Issa Rae and Jordan Peele purchased the film rights to a short story—for more than $630 per word.

    By Corinne Segal  July 29, 2020
    Bookstores

    Amid a virus surge and government repression, Hong Kong’s oldest bookstore is closing.

    By Aaron Robertson  July 29, 2020
    Open Letters

    SFF authors are protesting Saudi Arabia’s cynical bid to host the 2022 WorldCon.

    By Aaron Robertson  July 29, 2020
    Mighty SONG Writers

    WATCH: Amanda Shires with Jason Isbell on Writing Advice, Favorite Teachers (and a Song or Two)

    By Literary Hub  July 29, 2020
    Income Inequality

    Once Upon a Time, When America Paid Its Writers

    By Heather Radke  July 29, 2020
    Disasters

    American Disaster: In the Path of
    a Dirty Storm

    By Matthew Van Meter  July 29, 2020
    Literary History

    The Literary Life of Pessoa’s Alter Ego

    By Jerónimo Pizarro and Patricio Ferrari  July 29, 2020
    Cooking

    Learning to Cook for One During a Global Pandemic

    By Skye McAlpine  July 29, 2020
    Artists

    On the Unique Artistic Sensibility of Magda Nachman

    By Lina Bernstein  July 29, 2020
    American Politics

    Does ‘Character’ Still Count in American Politics?

    By Marjorie Garber  July 29, 2020
    Mighty SONG Writers

    When Coronavirus Hit, This Writing Nonprofit Expanded to Serving Lunch

    By Corinne Segal  July 29, 2020
    The Hub

    James Patterson named his latest heroine after a very nice Mayo clinic employee.

    By Dan Sheehan  July 28, 2020
    The Hub

    The Oscars of the comic industry have been announced.

    By Katie Yee  July 28, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Is This the End of Writing in Cafés?

    By Emily Temple  July 28, 2020
    Letters Home

    Letter from San Francisco: When the Shadow is Looming

    By Oscar Villalon  July 28, 2020
    On Race

    The Vow James Baldwin Made to Young Civil Rights Activists

    By Eddie S. Glaude Jr.  July 28, 2020
    Publishing

    How to Write an Email Well Enough to Land a Book Deal

    By Anne Trubek  July 28, 2020
    Income Inequality

    Homeless in a Pandemic: The Housing Poetry of Jennifer Fitzgerald

    By Alissa Quart  July 28, 2020
    Linguistics

    Some of the Earliest Written Dialogues Were in Middle English Literature

    By David Crystal  July 28, 2020
    Rape Culture

    Underinvestigated, Trivialized, Excused: On a US System That Treats Rape as Something Less Than a Crime

    By Michelle Bowdler  July 28, 2020
    Theater

    My Mother and ‘Culture’:
    A Love Story

    By David Adjmi  July 28, 2020
    Anti-Colonialism

    Amiri Baraka’s Anti-Epic Poem About America’s Destruction

    By Michael Leong  July 28, 2020
    The Hub

    Hilary Mantel is up for her third Booker Prize in a row—and on a longlist dominated by debuts.

    By Emily Temple  July 27, 2020
    The Hub

    An adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s next novel is already in the works.

    By Dan Sheehan  July 27, 2020
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